Chiming in to say JHU has given me permission to organize a mirror of the Guerilla History event after. Submission is optional, but I highly encourage you to do so - it saves you $10 and we need packets to make the event happen. Plus, the questions are six lines each, so you can bust out some wackie...

Hey folks - so Nitin tells me there are very few submissions in so far, and that's disappointing. Since the submissions don't need much editing, we've decided to extend the deadline by a week. Also wanted to remind people that the questions should only be about six lines long - so it shouldn't take ...

Hi all, A friendly reminder that this is still a Thing! Please help Nitin out and get your packets in before February 16th. I understand a lot of folks are busy with Nationals submissions, so if you're an open player, submissions are particularly appreciated :) EDIT: I've added a column to the sprea...

Conor's packet was fun, and has inspired me to write an ass hard Magic the Gathering packet. It will have either 15, 30, or 45 tossups. Hopefully the latter. EDIT: Provided there is sufficient interest, I may make this an MTG mini-tournament with rounds of 15 tossups each, with an entry fee and pote...

Even if this argument about charity giving an event precedence was an agreed-upon thing and not something you just made up Yeah, I made it up. Shoot me. Since tournaments exist to serve players, it seems to me to make sense to run tournaments where they will reach the largest possible appropriate a...

This is a hard college-level difficulty tournament whose proceeds are going to charity. It seems like a hard college tournament like ICT would be the best place to run this to maximize audience and that furthermore this should take precedent over events which are not for charity.

I strongly agree with Jacob Reed here. When I'm trying to learn about a work of literature, for personal edification or for the purpose of writing a question, I find that literary reviews and essays are a really nice way to learn what people consider to be the most moving/salient details of a book, ...

Thanks to all the readers for putting this event on! There were some hiccups, but the tournament organizers dealt with them in a professional manner. And honestly, 11 rounds in 11 hours isn't great, but it could be much worse Congrats to Matt, Mia, Geoffrey, and Daniel on a really well played final ...

One more thing - please don't share any of your questions with anyone, not even people you're playing with and who your packet will presumably be grouped with! I would really like each packet to feel like a bit of a wild ride and have a minimal amount of coordination, in order for there to be an eve...

Added to the OP - I'd like to run this event after PIANO. In accordance, I am going to suggest 30-question rounds to not make the tournament go too long. I'd like to make sure the editors get fair compensation as well. EDIT: I've changed the entry fee to $10 to incentivize writing, and to generate e...

Based on my positive experience with the somewhat guerilla QANTA event, I'd like to modify the format of this tournament. I'd like to have slightly shorter questions and more questions per round - I think 30 would be good. I think this has the effect of making things feel less onerous for teams that...

Thanks to Jordan B-G and co. for putting on an excellent event, and to Jordan, JinAh, and Daniel for being great teammates. More tournaments should offer Krazy Kebab catering for lunch. To speak a bit about the questions and the format: If you get a chance to play this question set online, I recomme...

I see you working, Jacob! I probably shouldn't be letting you in on Jesse Gingold's secret improvement strategies, but he's listened to a ton of the BBC "In Our Time" podcasts, which mostly cover literature and history, but also do small dives into science and other topics. Echoing Mike, this is de...

It seems to me that the particular problem arising here is related to the fact that the axis mundi of the Midwest is found, unsurprisingly, in the state of Illinois, and particularly in Chicago and its environs. The logical solution seems to be to host the Midwest mirror in Chicago. However, this to...

Throwing players under the bus to facilitate propping another site (a site mostly being demanded by hosts rather than players) should be avoided even more strenuously. Mirrors exist to afford players a chance to play a tournament. Players do not exist to give mirrors business. This, exactly this. S...

This would be on Discord. To answer a few questions from PMs: 1) If you're playing this as a team, then all members of your team should vote in this poll 2) We'll close the poll in three weeks - this should give us time to confirm whether we'll have a Southeast mirror, let stats filter out so people...

Hey folks, This is a poll for potential dates for a CLOSED (i.e. single school only) online mirror of SGI. If you are a college team or top high school team, we recommend you play this tournament IF AND ONLY IF only if you have a conflict and/or cannot otherwise make it to a physical site. If you're...

At this point, are people more interested in playing this as an online event or as an in-person event, with a random other person being asked to edit out repeats? Personally I kind of want to try an online-only event, as I mean for this to be free and I'd like everyone who wrote to play the tourname...

Thought I'd mention a small error I ran into while reading over Editors 1: [10] In 1866, the American steamer General Sherman attempted to emulate Perry’s expedition by visiting this non-Japanese East Asian city; however, the ship was destroyed by this city’s residents. The USS Pueblo was captured o...

I’m not fantastically knowledgeable about music, so I’m not sure if it’s technically correct to call the Große Fuge a string quartet, but I feel like that tossup should have accepted fugue in the first two sentences that were talking about it. Michael Yue negged with fugue on the first clue, and he...

Progress update: The set is 98% done at this point and mostly packetized. I think we ended up hitting our target difficulty of "about halfway between 2017 EFT and this past year's Regionals" though the set obviously has a different field than an introductory tournament like EFT. I'm obviously biased...

What kinds of note clues were being used? I'd generally agree with Daniel in cautioning against the use of note clues unless you are really careful to provide full context and describe a pretty iconic moment of the piece, and further stipulate that putting clues about specific notes in every tossup ...

I didn't read the set, but I'm curious in general what people think is "a lot" of Hinduism content in the mythology / legends distribution - as opposed to Hindu religious practices, which can be harder to write fresh questions on - I generally wouldn't go beyond 2-3 total tossups and bonuses on Hind...

Is it just me, or is anyone else a little irritated by a question on 'Morocco' where the clues are mainly about the Almoravids and Almohads? Yes, both dynasties originated in modern-day Morocco, but the polities they ruled extended far beyond its modern boundaries, and the rulers were fairly itiner...

I should add one thing: I realize that you need to submit questions through the write.qanta.org site - however, in my experience teams usually compile submitted packets on something like Google Docs before they submit them, to help figure out who's writing what, etc. In this context, a visually simp...

600 characters I think is fine - that's about 5.5/6 lines of 10/11 Times New Roman font, respectively. If the worry is that questions will go for too long and bore viewers, I genuinely do suspect that most of these tossups will go within the first couple sentences if they're written at the advertise...

Is there a length guideline for submitted questions? Try not to go over 500 characters of questions, and unless the question is exquisitely crafted, try not to go under 400 characters. This is a really important point, thanks! We'll update the question submission interface to reflect this and also ...

Are you going to have people sign up to be on the bailout brigade? I'm not trying to be snarky--I wonder how many tournaments would be better if instead of issuing a blanket call for help, they had a few people who knew that in cases of emergencies they could be called upon (of course, they might a...

I expect this set to be at least 25% complete by the end of April 2019, at least 50% complete by the end of June 2019, and entirely complete by the end of August 2019. All writers will be expected to have completed the same proportions of their committed questions by the stated times or will face f...

I expect this set to be at least 25% complete by the end of April 2019, at least 50% complete by the end of June 2019, and entirely complete by the end of August 2019. All writers will be expected to have completed the same proportions of their committed questions by the stated times or will face fi...

Hi folks, I'm planning to head edit EFT again next year and am looking for people interested in contributing. Interested writers should be willing to: - Commit to at least 30 questions - Commit to a highly aggressive production schedule, including possibility of losing monetary reward from the set f...